Democratic Art: WE LINKED HANDS BETWEEN WELFARE FOR THE POOR WITH ARTS GRANTS FOR THE RICH - Beneficiary's Office

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2015/10/14/sold-out-by-nz-academic-artist-fraud/

 

 

 "This is what we did with the “Beneficiary’s Office” made our public funding transparent. WE LINKED HANDS BETWEEN WELFARE FOR THE POOR WITH ARTS GRANTS FOR THE RICH. In the front lines of Democracy that we the general public have paid for, we have not had our most talented voices with their shoulders to the wheel. Individual works may be critical, but without the picture being painted of a collective group existing, these critical conversations don’t happen. And a vacuum is formed where leadership should be. The needless suffering inflicted at WINZ, that welfare for the poor, is what the rich on welfare, the University employee, should care about."

 

- Tao Wells  Wells Group  2015